{"id":20604,"date":"2026-03-15T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/20604\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:58:08","slug":"who-releases-2-million-in-emergency-funds-to-lebanon-iraq-and-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/20604\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO releases $2 million in emergency funds to Lebanon, Iraq and Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">March 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The World Health Organization said on Sunday it had released $2 million \u200cfrom its Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) to \u200csupport the health response in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria amidst \u200bthe ongoing crisis in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The conflict has triggered a large-scale population movement, the WHO said last week, estimating that more than 100,000 people \u200cin Iran have \u2060relocated, and up to 700,000 people in Lebanon have been internally displaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">$1 million \u2060has been allocated to Lebanon to strengthen the WHO&#8217;s emergency coordination through the Public Health Emergency \u200bOperations Centre, \u200bscale up trauma \u200bcare, reinforce disease surveillance, \u200cand procure and distribute essential medicines and medical supplies, the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Iraq and Syria have each been allocated $500,000 to support emergency coordination and mass-casualty management, procure and distribute essential \u200cmedicines and supplies, provide health \u200bservices for displaced populations, and \u200bstrengthen disease surveillance \u200band community outreach, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;At a \u200ctime when health services \u200bare already facing \u200bsignificant challenges, support is essential to sustain frontline health workers and maintain critical care \u200bservices,&#8221; Hanan Balkhy, \u200cWHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Rhea Rose Abraham in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Alexander Smith)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The World Health Organization said on Sunday it had released $2 million \u200cfrom its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[10310,93,95,5653],"class_list":["post-20604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-contingency-fund","tag-lebanon","tag-syria","tag-world-health-organization"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116234492523166174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}